Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

About Sri Aurobindo:

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while became one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution.
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalitie...

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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

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It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to ...

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As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration ...

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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

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The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

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Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

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When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellant, but I could no longer find them.

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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

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What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

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I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoymen...

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Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

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The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculti...

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Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

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Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.

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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

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She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

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Hidden nature is secret God.

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Author Bio

  • NameSri Aurobindo
  • DescriptionIndian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
  • AliasesSri Ôrobindo; Aurobindo Ghosh or Ghose; Ôrobindo Ghosh; Philosophy and Spiritualism of Sri Aurobindo
  • BornAugust 15, 1872
  • DiedDecember 5, 1950
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionLinguist; Poet; Author; Translator; Philosopher; Essayist